She sobbed brokenly, her throat an ugly gash, like a second, red, smiling mouth.

Perhaps most compellingly, she sat with Bill, who brokenly recalls his cataclysmic affair with Monica Lewinsky, likening himself to a weary boxer who grabs for something, anything, that might momentarily distract him from the fight.

I was trying to get to my therapist’s office when the subway groaned brokenly, stopped, grew dark, then hot, then seemed to die completely.

Alone among his contemporaries, he took the frequently visited subject of the broken person in a broken world and, rather than seek out comfort and connection, began to explore it brokenly and mercilessly.

All one hears is the drummers practising; they have installed themselves somewhere and practise brokenly, dully, monotonously.